QUASSIA

Quassia

Quassia is a flora genus in the family Simaroubaceae. Its size is disputed; some botanists treat it as consisting of only one species, Quassia amara from tropical South America, while others treat it in a wide circumscription as a pantropical genus containing up to 40 species of trees and shrubs. The genus was named after a former slave from Surinam, Graman Quassi in the eighteenth century. He discovered the medicinal properties of the bark of Quassia amara.

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quassia

Noun

  1. Any of several tropic trees, of the genus , having scarlet flowers.
  2. The bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark.


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